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Unit 1 Study Guide Flashcards

Chapters 1-4

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1
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What Native American Empire was based out of Tenochtitlan (one of the largest cities of its time) and controlled southern Mexico?

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Aztec

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2
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What crop was the foundation of Native American agriculture?

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Corn

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3
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Which of the following from Europe had the greatest impact on Native American life?

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European diseases

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4
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In what region of the modern USA were the Pueblo tribes found?

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Southwest

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5
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T/F:
West American societies were isolated from any international trade before the Atlantic slave trade of the 16th century.

A

False

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6
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What is the name of the movement in 16th century Europe that divided the Church into Protestant and Catholic?

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The Reformation

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This term refers to the global transfer of living things after Columbus’ discovery of the New World.

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Columbian Exchange

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8
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What plants/animals/things were in the Old World.

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Wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, and diseases.

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9
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What plants/animals/things were in the New World.

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Gold silver, corn, potatoes, pineapple, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate, and syphilis.

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What English King led his nation to Protestantism because of his desire for a divorce?

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Henry VIII

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This Queen provided stability to the English monarchy. She also witnessed the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

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Elizabeth I

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What religious group opposed the compromises in the Church of England? They wanted it to be more Reformed/Calvanistic.

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Puritans

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13
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This economic system sought a “favorable balance of trade” with other nations.

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Mercantilism

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14
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The Roanoke Colony is famous for what?

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The disappearance of all the colonists

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15
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This current city is the oldest European settlement in the US.

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St. Augustine

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16
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This city was originally settled by Dutch colonists.

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New York

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17
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By 1688, England had developed into this kind of monarchy.

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Constitutional

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18
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How did America get its name?

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After Amerigo Vespucci

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19
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How did the British Empire further its empire and gain the loyalty of Dutch colonists?

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life, liberty, and property

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20
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Who founded the Virginia colony in Jamestown and why?

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it was founded by the Virginia Company to make money

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21
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Why was Massachusetts founded?

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As a place where puritans could worship the way they wanted to

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22
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Who were the majority of the Early immigrants to Virginia?

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indentured servants from England

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23
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The Virginia House of Burgesses is an early example of what?

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Self-government

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24
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The middle passage is a term that refers to what?

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the voyage of slaves from West Africa to the Americas

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25
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What college was founded by the Puritans in 1636 to train their pastors?

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Harvard

26
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What states were in the New England Colony?

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-Maine
-Vermont
-New Hampshire
-Massachusetts
-Rhode Island
-Connecticut

27
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What states were in the Middle Colonies?

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-New York
-Pennsylvania
-New Jersey
-Delaware

28
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What states were in the Southern Colonies?

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-Maryland
-Virginia
-N. Carolina
-S. Carolina
-Georgia

29
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What bible verse did John Smith use to turn around the economic situation of the colony?

A

2 Thessalonians 3:10

30
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What is the name for the first self-governing assembly in the New World?

A

House of Burgesses

31
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Who desired that the Massachusetts colony would be a “city on a hill”?

A

John Winthrop

32
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What were the two places that most slaves that journeyed to the New World went to?

A

Caribbean and Brazil

33
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Which colony had the largest percentage of slaves?

A

South Carolina

34
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Most residence of the colonies were from where?

A

England

35
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T/F:
Between 1700 and 1775 the population of the colonies declined because of epidemic disease.

A

False

36
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Where did the Scots-Irish tend to settle?

A

Appalachian Mountains

37
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What area of the colonies offered the best opportunities for education?

A

New England

38
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Name a toy that Colonial Children would commonly play with?

A

Dolls

39
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What was the New England Primer?

A

To help teach the ABC’s

40
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Who wrote: “Glass, china, and reputation are easily crack’d and never well mended”.

A

Ben Franklin

41
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This law mandated schools in every Massachusetts town.

A

Old Deluder Satan Act

42
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This term refers to the voyage of slaves from Africa to the New World.

A

Middle Passage

43
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A corn meal pancake eaten in colonial times was called what?

A

hoe cake

44
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This agreement adopted by the Congregational churches of New England in the 1600s that allowed baptized but unconverted church members to have children who could be baptized and become church members with political rights.

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Halfway covenant

45
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These were staunch Protestants who rejected the rule of bishops and Anglican ceremonies. They wanted a more protestant church of England.

A

Puritans

46
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This group believed the whole church of England was corrupt.

A

Separatists

47
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This monarch brought the Protestant Reformation to England because of his desire for a divorce.

A

Henry VIII

48
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This group founded by George Fox believed in following a person’s “inner light”.

A

Quakers

49
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This founder of Rhode Island was an early promoter of the Separation of Church and State.

A

Roger Williams

50
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This current religious group are the inheritors of the Anabaptist tradition.

A

Amish.

51
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Who was the most outstanding evangelist of the Great Awakening?

A

George Whitefield

52
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What Massachusetts pastor was the greatest theologian of the Great Awakening?

A

Jonathan Edwards

53
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A summary of a denominations doctine in question-and-answer form.

A

Catechism

54
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In Virginia and the Carolinas, this type of church was established.

A

Anglican

55
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In Massachusetts and Connecticut, this type of church was established.

A

Congregationalist

56
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In Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, this type of church was established.

A

No establishment

57
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The intellectual movement that Emphasized the ability to human reason to answer life’s issues is called what?

A

The Enlightenment

58
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Short Answer:
Who were the Puritans, what did they want and what were their goals? name a person/event that had to do with Puritans.

A

-believed in having Protestantism in the England Church.
-they wanted to reject the rule of Anglican ceremonies
-Martin Luther was a puritan and the one who began the protestant reformation

59
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Short Answer:
How did the Puritans impact education?

A

-They wanted to learn about God
-Founded Harvard in 1636 which was the first college
-They built this college to train pastors
-They passed the Old Deluder Satan Act in 1647. This stated that a town with 50+ people had to have a school
-Also created the New England Primer which taught them how to read.

60
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Short Answer:
When and where did the Colonies practice self-government?

A

-In 1620 in Plymouth Colony. It came from the Mayflower compact which was that self-government was the consent of the governed.
-In 1630 in Massachusetts Bay Colony. It came from John Winthrop and his belief in a city on a hill.

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